I understand and share the Webmaster's dislike of Cyberpunk, but, in my opinion, William Gibson has, in his latesttrilogy Pattern Recognition, Spook Country,/b] and [b]Zero History, developed out of it. The trilogy was anexcellent near future thriller when it was written, now it could almost be called simply a thriller.

The text-editor of these Forums is very good, better by far than that of other sites I have visited. But, as we see above, if two bold textsare very near to each other it doesn't work properly. So beware!

I would dearly like to understand what is the purpose of such "messages" as that of ellavera125. Very often they seem to be lifted fromarbitrary pieces of discussion on Elizabeth Moon. Has this some significance? As I was somewhat critical of her supporters (especiallyof Judith Tarr), it has occurred to me that it is meant as a kind of harassing. But this may be just paranoia.